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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Paul Persaud, a health officer of Paterson, N.J., about how his team has been able to mount an aggressive contact tracing campaign.

The U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip said its employees were among 18 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school. Israel said the school was being used by Hamas.

Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline have been raging. Tribe leader Dave Archambault II says he's telling supporters "not to react to any form of aggression that law enforcement brings."

Public defenders in the Bronx filed a lawsuit Tuesday against lawmakers in New York. They charge that courts are chronically understaffed, jeopardizing the right to a speedy trial for many defendants.

A federal judge in New York is set to hear allegations Wednesday that the Trump administration concealed the real reason it wants to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Amazon may have violated federal health and safety standards as well as New York's whistleblower law, the New York attorney general's office wrote to Amazon in a letter obtained by NPR.

Anderson is best-known for playing magic-loving, eccentric Judge Harry T. Stone on the sitcom Night Court. He was found dead Monday. No foul play is suspected.

Physicians at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center say they hope treating ER patients with alternatives to opioid painkillers will serve as a model for cutting down on opioid abuse nationwide.

Alexander Hillel Treisman, 19, was indicted on child pornography charges. Federal agents presented evidence suggesting he was obsessed with mass shootings — and drove within 4 miles of Biden's home.

The stretch SUV that crashed in Schoharie had recently failed inspection, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Such modified vehicles often fall through the cracks of regulatory agencies.